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Quook vs Quonk - What's the difference?

quook | quonk |

As verbs the difference between quook and quonk

is that quook is (obsolete) (quake) while quonk is to produce unwanted noise.

As a noun quonk is

unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.

quook

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (quake)
    • That lyk an aspen leef he quook for ire. — Chaucer.

    quonk

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Unwanted noise picked up by a microphone in a broadcasting studio.
  • Audience chatter which disturbs the performer.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To produce unwanted noise.
  • * 2004 , Alastair Scott, Stuffed Lives
    • The microphone quonked , caused the speakers to emit an electronic belch which looped and reverberated
  • To honk.
  • * 1902 , Cooper Ornithological Society, The Condor
    • As we pushed among the reeds in the swamp, the grebes could be heard quonking in the buckbrush or beyond it.
  • * 1999 , Ronald Rompkey, Eliot Curwen, Labrador Odyssey